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The Lady in Flesh
Paperback
Series: Psalm of the Tear, Book 1
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Joshua Bish
Published: Aug 18 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the earth still sang, a girl climbed a mountain to fast and listen. What answered did not speak in words, it opened a door.
In 1603 Appalachia, Wenonah is chosen to keep the old ways: silence, hunger, and a vision on a sacred height. But at the forest's edge a new settlement, New Prosperity, has been hammered into the bones of ancient trees. The settlers call it providence. The land calls it desecration. As winter bears down and fear spreads, Wenonah's vision twists into a bargain that births a legend, one of flesh, worship, and a hunger that remembers every name it is given.
Centuries later, that wound refuses to close. Beneath the foundations of a hilltop college, a room that shouldn't exist begins to breathe. Whispers move through vents. Walls sweat like skin. The old song rises again, and those who listen find themselves marked, by grief, by faith, by desire, and by the terrible comfort of something that promises to love you if you'll only let it eat.
The Lady in Flesh is Book One of Psalms of the Tear, a standalone-entry horror novel that marries Appalachian folk dread with theological obsession and body horror. It is a story about the cost of making a world in your image, and the older world that asks for its due. For readers of dark, atmospheric horror who like their myths with teeth, their history with blood, and their hauntings with a heartbeat.
Themes & notes: Appalachian folk/cosmic horror - occult ritual - psychological descent - colonial trespass and its consequences - missing persons - liminal rooms and thin places - faith corrupted into appetite.
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